Quotes About Addiction

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil... The best way to break this addiction is through technology.

The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life.

I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

I strode toward Mr. Coffee with lust in my eyes. We'd had a thing for quite some time now Mr. Coffee and I.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.

I'm a gamer. I play PlayStation all the time.

For many, negative thinking is a habit which, over time, becomes an addiction.

I was addicted to amphetamines at the time I got busted, but I tend to think I was on a determined, self-destruct course that had little to do with the effect of Benzedrine.

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

Cook, at that moment in time, I would have sold my body for a mocha latte

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

had to say over and over to myself, 'Give up the drink or lose your soul! Give up the drink or break Polly's heart!' But thanks be to God, and my dear wife, my chains were broken, and now for ten years I have not tasted a drop, and never wish for it.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.

His appetite for the stimulus of wine had increased upon him, as I had too well foreseen. It was now something more to him than an accessory to social enjoyment: it was an important source of enjoyment in itself.

And they say an addiction to novels is bad for you.

Trying to reason with an addict was like trying to blow out a lightbulb.